The Aquatic and Terrestrial Life of Southern California Merges into Hybrid Creatures in Jon Ching’s Paintings
“King Tide.” All pictures © Jon Ching, courtesy of Beinart Gallery, shared with permission
Los Angeles-based artist Jon Ching imagines the unbelievable potentialities of melding Earth’s wildlife, rendering weird creatures with mushroom feathers and striped tulip fins. His newest oil work, that are on view this fall in Habitat at Beinart Gallery, prolong this curiosity in hybridity by mixing aquatic, aerial, and terrestrial organisms and their environments.
Marine ecosystems seem in most of the items, alongside cacti and succulents native to Ching’s residence in southern California. In “King Tide,” for instance, rising water approaches a cockatoo with plant-like plumage, and “Acclimate” depicts two inexperienced parrots perched on aloe rising under the floor. Every work envisions how totally different ecologies might converge and references nature’s resilience, the local weather disaster, and the rising necessity of adapting to a altering world.
Ching’s solo present Habitat runs from September 11 to October 2 in Melbourne. Prints and stickers can be found in his shop, and you may observe his newest works on Instagram.
“Acclimate”
“Reparation”
Left: “Hygge.” Proper: “Suppose Tank”
“Double Imaginative and prescient”
“Flash Level”
Left: “Jungle Fitness center.” Proper: “Neogenesis”
“Lengthy Sport”
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